In a surprising Fast
Company article, Professor Sebastian Thrun, Founder of Udacity states: "I'd aspired to give
people a profound education--to teach them something substantial…But the data
was at odds with this idea." Considered the godfather of MOOCs by
some, Thrun was disappointed that while Udacity had 1.6 million students, on
average, 5 out of 100 learned the coursework. An
article from The Chronicle of Higher
Education points out that many faculty are not surprised by Thrun’s findings
and that Udacity will not disrupt higher education as originally imagined. Jonathan
Haber, columnist in the Huffington
Post still believes that technology can bring education to more people
while "enhancing rather than tear(ing) down the existing college system".